"Say what you will about the tennets of national socialism but at least it's creating jobs."

Really though, the hospital won't allow you to drive your baby home without securing them in a carseat, this should just be the same kind of rule.

Do hospitals have a problem of kids left in the waiting room? I ask because my wife had to go to the ER this weekend (she's ok now) and both times I mentioned to staff there about my kids being in the waiting room they immediately said I can't leave them there.

The name of this lounge brings up something about my son's middle name. I'm occasionally mildly concerned someone will misunderstand why I chose that since it's what North Korea calls itself, but as the name of this lounge demonstrates it's also a name used in the south.

lol I still don't have a linux box, but this does nudge me closer

These are the people this is about www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/vot...

He restricted replies so I can't tell him I followed just for this.

lol this response is just like that viral guy who was given wrong answers by the AI when he tried to cheat on a test

Those drinks have such funny extreme-sports names like "ICE CRUSH", and "FURIOUS BERRY" and "KERNEL PANIC"

This conversation about Covid experiences is serious but reminds me about this gag op-ed:

y'know there are escape rooms, so maybe there should be heist rooms?

This is easily my favorite thing I've seen in picoCAD yet!

This bonus scene could've been an email.

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means? ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

#2 is another tip that's similar to how I write my books/tutorials. I don't literally record myself, but I do imagine that I'm explaining out loud and jotting down what I would say.

This is why I like outlining when I'm writing. I basically look at outlines as a sparse first draft.

No kings except this dog.

I was once advised at work to stop using qualifiers before statements (stuff like "I'm not 100% certain, but I think...") so that others would find my advice more impressive. Which, like, was probably true, but fuck if I'm going to start casually lying like that.

Someone was at an unpopular opinion event and look at this y’all 😭

So I started rewatching Leap of Faith (1992) and I'm struck by how much the movie expects viewers to pick up on subtle unsaid moments. Like, the main character lies every other sentence, but you mainly see that through gestures and facial expressions, nobody ever explicitly says "hey that's a lie"

From the very early 2000s

Fyre Festival 2: In The Navy

but y'know they support the troops

omg bravo to whoever made this

One of my favorite movies while growing up was Leap of Faith, in which Steve Martin played a con-man preacher. That movie came out in 1992; some things never change *sigh*

lol never thought of this before but it's an interesting point. If theoretically AI agents got as capable as is being promised, then why even subscribe to Salesforce or whatever? Why not just ask ChatGPT to write something for your company to use instead?

My daughter wanted the cards so I got a Kpop Demon Hunters meal at McDonald's. It has two sauces for the nuggets, Hunter and Demon, which I guess was appropriate branding because the Hunter sauce is actually pretty good while the Demon sauce looks like Gwi-ma's spooge.

I heard a blast of horns along with that last line.

This reminds me of when they tried to do a Skylanders thing with Disney characters: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_...

fine, take my like geez *angrily presses button*

we have got to get it together, in like twenty-four hours the astronauts are back

The news is currently so bad the White House is changing the subject TO the president's longtime, well-documented friendship with a child predator, amazing stuff.

lol "try to shoot yourself in the foot but miss and shoot yourself in the dick instead" is such a good description

Who's going to tell him that those were all wars approved by Congress and this is ... not?

I want this shirt.

A world leader making a casual statement of genocide is not, nor should it ever be, be allowed to be something normal and acceptable

quake 3 vibes in this texture

oh god now I'm remembering a conversation back in grad school with someone who seriously suggested paying for space exploration with ads beaming from the moon

slightly ruining the joke for future reference: bluesky wasn't loading this morning

So much for liberating the people of Iran.

I'm routinely pretend to be serious about food discourse (eg. pretend outrage about favorites made the wrong way) but even *I* know better than to actually get mad about food preferences.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

I don't know how to feel about the whole Dubai chocolate thing. It confusingly sprang up from nothing to being everywhere overnight, and also is a flavor combination that is like surgically designed to appeal to me.

strong temptation to make that truck in picoCAD

so many good ones in this thread, but I definitely laughed hardest at this one

Does anyone know the code Unity's UI Toolkit uses to render the rounded borders of a VisualElement? I figured out how to draw a box with rounded corners using Painter2D.ArcTo() but while that is extremely close it doesn't perfectly match the rounded borders that UI Toolkit does by default.

*facepalm* "You can make an article on your own website, 'the best waterproof shoes for 2026'. You just put your own brand in number one and other brands two through six, and your page is likely to be cited within Google and within ChatGPT." www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Massie is interesting interesting because while I dislike most of his policy positions (this is the "gun-toting christmas card" dude after all) he is proving to be one of the few Republicans who is actually true in his beliefs, and is not just a hypocrite clinging to power.